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L PGDM ADMISSION SELECTION PROCESS 2020-2022 INNOVATION POTENTIAL TEST Name: sakshi

Application Number:

Badge Number : 2020

Instructions: This section consists of two questions. Please write your answers in the space
provided. All questions are compulsory. Your answers should be written in neat, legible handwriting.
Q1. Based on the reading below, give your opinion on the degree of staying connected with internet-
based devices and social-media. [Answer length: 250-300 words] The movement to disable (alerts
and notifications) and disconnect (from internet-enabled devices and social media) has gained more
momentum than ever before. The awareness that being always connected, slavishly letting our
phone’s notifications command our attention, is harming our productivity, sleep and well-being,
became mainstream this year. In September 2018, Pew Research Centre released a report stating
26% of US adults deleted the Facebook app from their phones in the past year and 54% adjusted
their privacy settings. Recently, scandals related to privacy roiled Facebook, leading to greater
mistrust among the public. Twitter’s inability to address issues such as hate speech, vitriolic trolling,
and rape threats pushed users to quit in droves. Twitter reported a loss of 1 million monthly active
users between Q2 ’17 and Q2’. Even Snapchat saw a 1.5% decline in daily active users. Apple also
introduced Screentime in iOS 12, letting users or parents limit the time spent on the device as well as
specific apps. Device de-addiction apps such as Moment and Freedom, Arianna Huffington’s digital
detox app called Thrive, and concepts like digital detox getaways are gaining popularity. 2019 saw
the emergence of more media of this kind to help users connect less digitally and more, to use a
social media abbreviation, IRL. On the other side, this year continued to show us the catalysing and
transformative effects digital connections can have on communities. It has changed the fortunes of
ordinary people-turned-social-media celebrities and influencers, some of whom earn their
livelihoods now by leveraging this popularity. It has given women from tier-2 and -3 towns a tool to
channelise their networking abilities on Facebook and WhatsApp for social commerce and become
financially independent. This year, we saw social media microcosms gaining significant popularity.
Take Discord, for example. It is an app built to bring together a community of gamers. Similarly,
there are niche social media platforms for a community of auto enthusiasts online. These platforms
have given talented people new avenues to make money off their hobbies. Similarly, there is
tremendous scope in creating social media microcosms to connect farmers to agriculture scientists
and to others in their community; to connect doctors to patients and vice-versa. (Source: Economic
Times)

ANSER NUMBER 1

Social media that is becoming quite popular these days because of its use of user friendly features.
Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, telegram, twitter and more are giving people a
chance of getting connected with each other across distances, the youth is specially one of the most
dominate users of social media, like how there is always two sides of the coin, the same goes for
social media and internet.

When we look at the positive aspect of social media and internet we numerous advantages. The
most important being a grate device for education, students can educate them selves on various
topics using internet more live lectures are now possible on internet and social media.
Further more as more and more people are distancing themselves from newspaper they are
depending on internet and social media for news. Another advantage benefits companies who whish
to promote there bands.

Despite having such unique advantages social media is considered to be to one of the most harmful
tool of the society , it harmful because it invades our privacy like never before the over sharing
happing on social media makes children a target for predators and hackers. It also leads to cyber
bullying next is the addiction of social media which is quite common among the youth.

The youth must particularly create a balance between their academic performance and social media
and internet. Excess of anything is harmful same thing applies to internet and social media.

ANSWER 2

Water is the basic necessity of every human being , this picture is telling us about the scarcity of
water in our country and at the same time it tells us about how important is water for us. Water
scarcity is a major issue that is rising very rapidly in modern days in India. The problem has become
so sever that in many states the groundwater has almost dried up and people have to depend on
water supply from other sources. In addition, water is one of the most misused commodities that we
still waste every now and then , it is the central point of our lives but not the central point of our
focus. Water scarcity is caused due the mismanagement and excess population growth of the water
resources. Also it is a man made issue that continues to rise. Besides some of the reasons for water
scarcity. Wasteful use for agriculture India is one of the major food growers in the world. that
provides tons of the food to feed its population and export the surplus that is left .In addition ,
producing of this much food requires a lot of water too , besides lots of traditional way of doing
farming requires a lot of water wastage and eventually wastage to whole economy.

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